Publisher's Description

TurboTax Deluxe 2009 (Mac) is updated with all of the latest tax laws to help you get all of the deductions and credits you deserve - including the new 2009 Stimulus Plan credits for homebuyers, and new car purchases. Asks simple questions about your income, family situation and changes in your tax situation and credits. Then, based on your answers, searches for more than 350 deductions and credits to get you the biggest tax refund. Shows you which deductions you have taken. Which deductions you haven't. And tells you how to qualify for just about any deduction, so you don't miss any opportunities to save. Accurately value items you donate to charity, and tracks other donations such as cash, mileage and stocks, to help you get every charitable deduction you are entitled to. TurboTax Deluxe 2009 (Mac)guides you through common life changes, explains how the changes will impact your taxes, and tells you what you can deduct. Does all the math and tells you if you qualify to deduct your medical expenses for maximum tax savings.

Flexibility to work either form by form, line by line, or follow their wizard-like prompts and let the program put numbers in the right places. It will also reference previous years' returns prepared with this software and is careful to reference the same tax situations you had in the past. It also does a sort of "audit alert" by checking your return for the kinds of things the IRS looks for the trigger an audit. I've found this program to make filing a tax return as painless as possible, and it asks all the same questions a paid preparer would.

Cons

After using the program over 15 years, all the way back to MacInTax days, Intuit has offered up a big frack you. It won't run on OS 10.6.8, and my Mac won't run a newer OS.

Summary

I'm not a PC owner. I'm not used to this kind of abuse. Time to move on.

I have used this program for over 15 years (since MacInTax days). Intuit does not like OSX - they have killed - or greatly degraded all of their OSX software. (Quicken Essentials? Really? Excel is more useful as a financial program.)

Thus, it is not worth continuing to use Intuit software. If I need to move, so be it.

Summary

Intuit software for OSX will always be second rate. Go elsewhere and don't get trapped with years of data you can't make use of.

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